FOUR men have appeared in court in connection with Tuesday’s attempted jewellery raid at Mappin and Webb in Guildford High Street.

James Stewart, 26, Charles Sadler, 21, Andrew Peterson, 22, and Malcolm Hambleton, 61, appeared at South Western Magistrates’ Court in Battersea on Thursday.

The men were all charged with robbery following an undercover operation led by Metropolitan Police’s Flying Squad.

Stewart, of McKenzie Court, Maidstone, Kent, Sadler, of Glenalvon Way, Greenwich, Peterson, of Kingsley Wood Drive Greenwich, and Hambleton, of Bracondale Road, Greenwich, were all committed to Kingston Crown Court where a further hearing will take place on June 17.

A fifth arrested man remains in hospital after he was injured during the operation.